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Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones, Phil Harrison and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: a lively documentary about the brilliant Frida Kahlo

A colourful character … the first of the three-part Becoming Frida Kahlo looks at how an accident when she was a student changed the artist’s life.
A colourful character … the first of the three-part Becoming Frida Kahlo looks at how an accident when she was a student changed the artist’s life.
Photograph: Nickolas Muray/BBC/Rogan Productions/Nickolas Muray Photo Archives

Becoming Frida Kahlo

9pm, BBC Two

“Most of my friends grew up slowly; I grew up in an instant.” When bright, vivacious student Frida Kahlo was left seriously injured after a bus crash, it changed the trajectory of her life. She then became one of the most celebrated artists in the world, whose personal life was as colourful as her work. This first part of a lively three-part documentary series about her career paints her being creative as her way of winning. Hollie Richardson

Beyond Paradise

8pm, BBC One

The whole town being obsessed with a painting of a horse is the gently absurd premise for an impossible theft this week: the picture vanishes overnight despite being closely guarded in a locked room. DI Goodman (Kris Marshall) bumbles through a whodunnit with a short list of suspects. Jack Seale

Pat Benatar performing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame show in Los Angeles in November 2022.
Still rocking … Pat Benatar performing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame show in Los Angeles in November 2022. Photograph: Rob Latour/Rex/Shutterstock

Women Who Rock

9pm, Sky Arts

The series looking at female musicians who, well, rawwwwwk continues this week with the supremely self-assured Pat Benatar. “I threw many record company executives out of my house for being assholes,” says the woman who was the second-ever act on MTV. Ali Catterall

The Last Leg

10pm, Channel 4

The Last Leg lads return to swipe the week and are joined by the Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse, actor David Harewood and standup comedian Chris McCausland. Hopefully, at least one of the three can answer their ongoing “#isitok” hashtag. Ellen E Jones

The Graham Norton Show

10.40pm, BBC One

Michelle Yeoh winning Miss Malaysia to “shut up” her mother and Brendan Fraser hating the monkey from George of the Jungle are two of the very funny moments from the second highlights reel of the latest series. HR

Couples Therapy

11.05pm, BBC Two

This real-life therapy series is intimate to a fascinating, sometimes uncomfortable degree. This week’s focus is on race as Dr Guralnik is forced to ponder the power imbalance inherent in presiding over the struggles of black couples. It is made very clear when Dale links his anger issues to his daily treatment on the streets of the US. Phil Harrison

Film choice

Idris Elba’ in Luther: The Fallen Sun
Getting a movie makeover … Idris Elba’s brooding detective crosses from TV to film in Netflix’s Luther: The Fallen Sun. Photograph: John Wilson/Netflix

Luther: The Fallen Sun (Jamie Payne, 2023), Netflix

Idris Elba’s brooding TV detective gets a movie makeover in Jamie Payne’s expansive noir thriller. With little time for subplots, the show creator, Neil Cross, dumps John Luther in prison, then quickly breaks him out so he can pursue a serial killer/criminal mastermind (played gleefully by Andy Serkis) in disgraced-cop-on-the-run mode. Reunited with his old Volvo and famous grey overcoat in a perpetually drizzly London, Luther and his old-school policing comes up against his target’s cyber expertise and Moriarty-like flair for a set-piece. A couple of fine Bond-like scenes show off the bigger budget, while Cynthia Erivo stars as the DCI on both their tails – and gives as good as she gets. Simon Wardell

Live sport

Premiership Rugby Union: Northampton Saints v Bath Rugby, 7pm, BT Sport 1
At Franklin’s Gardens.

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